Electric scooters rules in France?

Quick question if anyone might know - do the French treat stand on electric scooters like bicycles or mopeds? Trying to work out if drink/ driving applies on one on the back roads during Le Mans. Ive got a 6 mile round trip to do on the Saturday night- could use a manual one if needs be

I'd have thought they were classed as motor vehicles. Certainly mini-motos are so need to be registered/licensed/insured for use on the road - leading to the amusing site of a man bent double pushing a mini-moto back to his campsite while the le plod who had stopped him crawled along behind him in a car to make sure he didn't just jump back on as soon as out of sight I saw at Le Mans a number of years back.

I'd have thought they were classed as motor vehicles. Certainly mini-motos are so need to be registered/licensed/insured for use on the road - leading to the amusing site of a man bent double pushing a mini-moto back to his campsite while the le plod who had stopped him crawled along behind him in a car to make sure he didn't just jump back on as soon as out of sight I saw at Le Mans a number of years back.

Thanks for that, sounds like the view ive heard. Thats a funny story!!Im on the back roads around Mulsanne, no cars but lots of plod monitoring things, and keeping my road one way. I need to come back against the one-way system drunk...no problem on a push scooter

I don’t know the answer for certain, but I would be surprised if it was.

There are a whole series of vehicles in France and Spain classed as “Sans permit” literally without license. These can range from 4-wheeled cars (quadra-cycle) to scooters so I would be surprised if electric scooters would not pass, provided they have lights etc.

More importantly, would you really risk your own life scootering down country roads absolutely pissed?